Gerald Warner is an author, broadcaster, columnist and polemical commentator who writes about politics, religion, history, culture and society in general.

Ron Davies must stop funding anti-British propaganda

On the very day we commemorate the immeasurable sacrifices made by those who died for Britain, we are confronted by yet another instance of the anti-British termites that infest local government gnawing away at our national identity. Politically correct guidelines drawn up for the 9,000 council staff at Caerphilly, in South Wales, include a warning not to use the word "British", since it may offend people from Scotland, Wales, Ireland or Asia.

So, being British is now cause for shame; or so the people behind this latest assault on our national identity and pride would have us believe. What makes this particular piece of municipal treason truly iconic is the identity of its author: it was drawn up by the Valleys Race Equality Council (Valrec) whose head is Ron Davies, the former Welsh Secretary, who resigned in disgrace after what he called a "moment of madness" on Clapham Common.

Davies appears to have had a further moment of madness when he compiled and published this booklet of anti-British drivel. Now, he is again resorting to weasel words to deny responsibility, claiming "It's just for information, there's no advice or instruction." Of course the guidelines give advice: otherwise, what would be the point of publishing them? We all know, too, what would be the career prospects of any council employee who ignored the instructions of the "progressive" social engineers.

Predictably, there has been the usual storm of protests about "political correctness gone mad", which is now the ritual prelude to passive acquiescence in yet another turn of the leftward ratchet. That will no longer suffice. We need a much more robust response to an aggression by discredited multiculturalists against British identity. As the leaflet treacherously observes: "the idea of 'British' implies a false sense of unity".

On the contrary, it implies a real unity – that is what the subversives scuttling behind the wainscoting dislike. There is no lack of war memorials in Wales to spell out that reality. The term "Britishness" is an ugly neologism, given currency by Gordon Brown, to describe a noble concept. It is time to act against those who subvert it. All public funding should be withdrawn from Valrec and the innumerable similar cells throughout the local government hydra that seek to destroy our nation and culture.

To borrow one of their own ghastly phrases, we need to implement "zero tolerance" of all the anti-British parasites with their mouths on the public teat. Deprive them of all taxpayer funding and, when possible, abolish these soviets before they abolish us.